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East StratCom disinformation claim:

The 700 tanks in the Donbas area could come from three sources: spoils of war captured from the Ukrainian military, sold illegally by Ukrainian commanders or they could have simply been present on the seized territory.

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Debunk claim:

There is evidence that Russia has supplied and continues to supply the self-proclaimed separatist republics in Ukraine with military equipment. NATO published satellite photos showing Russian combat troops with sophisticated heavy weaponry inside Ukraine. There are also documents showing that when separatists seized Eastern Ukraine, only 25 T-64 tanks remained in the region. Further debunking at Stopfake http://www.stopfake.org/en/fake-700-tanks-in-occupied-eastern-ukraine-are-spoils-of-war/